Kasich dings Bush on Medicaid expansion criticism

John Kasich fired back at Jeb Bush's criticism of Medicaid expansion under his watch in Ohio. On Friday, he invoked Bush's status as a board member at Tenet, a health-care company that supported and benefited from Obamacare.

“Well, look. He served on the board of the company that was an enthusiastic supporter of Obamacare, where I think he got like around $3 million," the Ohio governor told Fox News' Bill Hemmer on "America's Newsroom." "So don’t say you were fighting it like crazy, should have resigned the board if that was your point.”

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The comments followed a stream of mentions from Bush and his surrogates over Kasich's expansion of Medicaid, with Bush himself remarking in an earlier Fox News interview that it was "not attacking him, it's just pointing out that there's a difference."

"I'm a conservative, reform-minded candidate running for president, and I have the most conservative, reform-minded record as governor of the state of Florida," Bush told Greta Van Susteren on Thursday.

Bush ultimately resigned from his board position at Tenet in December 2014, the same month he announced that he was "actively exploring" a presidential run.

Assessing his campaign's strengths and weaknesses in South Carolina after a second-place finish in New Hampshire, Kasich rejected the notion that his campaign could not compete.

“We’re gonna be fine. We’re scrappy here, and we’re going to do as best we can but the campaign doesn’t end in South Carolina. It moves on to the rest of the country, Bill," Kasich said, touting the enthusiasm of voters for a positive message instead of personally attacking opponents. "They like the idea that you have a positive message instead of spending your time attacking others. I don’t even mention anybody else in my town hall meetings, and I’m going to keep doing that. Even Donald Trump is beginning to understand it.”